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CONSTRUGTION 0F NESTS 0F DRAWERS, 8:0. No. 368,173. Patented Aug. 9, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FrrcE.

THEODORE F. S. TINNE, OF BEEOHES, HAWKHURST, COUNTY OF KENT, ENGLAND.

CONSTRUCTION OF NESTS OF DRAWERS, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,173, dated August 9, 1887. Application filed April 11, IP87. Serial No. 234,425. (No model.) Patented in England May 28, 1886, No. 7,183,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THEODORE FREDERI SANDBACII TINNE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at The Beeches, Hawkburst, in the county of Kent, England, en.-

gineer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Nests of Drawers and Analogous Articles of Furniture, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 7,183, dated May 28, 1886,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide novel means for supporting nests of drawers when withdrawn from their casing; and to r5 such end my invention consists in the novel features of construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a top view, and Fig. 4 a perspective view, ofa nest of drawers fitted in a case with folding doors. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line ab of Fig. 1, showing the means whereby the doors when open maintain a position at right angles to the nest.

c and (Z are the doors, hinged to the nest at c e in such a manner that when open they form continuations of the sidesff, and are on their inner surfaces flush with the inner surfaces of the sides. Two rods, g {1, are pivoted at one of their ends to the bottoms of the doors, and their other ends are pivoted together, the pin which unites them, and on which they turn, being prolonged downward to form a pintle, as shown in detail in Fig. 6. This pintle 9 slides in a groove, 9, cut in the bottom of the nest, and so keeps the doors at all times in an equal relative position to each other, and prevents the doors opening more than in a position parallel with each other and at right angles to the nest.

On the inner faces of the doors I fix strips or runners s, in such positions that they form continuations of and take positions in line with the runners on which the drawers rest in the nest. It will thus be seen that when a drawer is drawn out, as at h, it is maintained in a horizontal position, and would be so even if drawn much farther out than is shownin the drawings. In some cases I cut grooves in the doors, instead of affixing strips, in which cases I attach or form strips on the sides of the drawers to run in such grooves, or I allow the bottom of the drawer to project at each side, or I affix slips or strips to the drawers, or form grooves in the sides of the drawers by planing them out of the solid, so as to engage in the. grooves and form the runners.

The hinges c c are set out in such a manner that when the doors are closed there is room between the doors andthe drawer-fronts for the strips, as shown atjby dotted lines in Fig. 5. The rods 9 ,7 then assume the position 6 shown by dotted lines.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination, with a nest of drawers arranged to slide horizontally in a casing, of doors hinged to the vertical side edges of the casing and provided with supports to sustain the drawers when the doors are opened and the drawers slid out, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a casing and d rawers adapted to slide horizontally therein, of doors hinged to the vertical side edges of the casing and provided with supports to sustain the drawers when the doors are opened and the drawers slid out, and means, such substantially as described, for stopping the opening of the doors when the latter are at right angles to the front of the drawers.

The combination, with a casing havinga bottom groove, 9, and a series of sliding drawers, of doors hinged to the vertical side edges of the casing and having supports to sustain the drawers when the doors are opened and the drawers are slid out, and rods y, pivoted at one end, respectively, to the doors and at their other ends connected to a pin which slides in the bottom groove of the casing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of March, 1887.

THEODORE F. S. TINNE.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE O. BOURING,

8 Quality Court, London, W. O. HERBERT E. DALE,

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